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Chicago examiner Chicago june 7 1908 sunday vol viii no 49 a m price five cents sunday j brandt walker 5000,000 gone sued by brokers for 23,415 attorneys for Chicago plunger in wall street say he cannot pay lost in stocks and grain caught in patten corn corner sells famous trotters at big sacrifice new york june 6 john brandt walker the stock market plunger from Chicago who was credited with winning 5,000,000 at the height of the panic last october and who then announced his in tention of quitting the wall street game was served with an attachment for 1i1,415 on an order obtained from judge gary of the supreme court by the stock exchange firm of carpenter baggott & co a few months ago 23,000 would have been regarded by walker as a mere trifle but according to counsel for his brokers blandy moody & shipman he couldn't or wouldn't settle a debt for that amount hence the attachment the attachment was served on the fifth avenue trust company where walker car ries his principal account and also on sev eral brokerage firms including l h b pell & co through which he deals caught in corn corner walker was caught short lu patten's cor ner in may corn on the Chicago board of trade recently his losses in that deal are said to have been very heavy when he was conducting his big bear campaign in the stock market which be gan early in 1907 and continued up to december last if not longer the plunger traded through eight or ten brokerage houses he makes his headquarters in the up town branch of l h r pell & co at 500 fifth avenue which is at the corner of forty-second street and his desk there is equipped with six telephones each con nected by private wires with a brokerage noose walker lives in bachelor apartments at 22 west third street he could not be found there to-night there have been rumors for the past six weeks that walker who claimed to have made as much as 1,000,000 in a single day during the height of the slump last fall was losing his money rapidly sells stock at big sacrifice color was given to these reports on may 18 when it was announced that walker had aom his combination stable and ga rage at 30 west sixty-sixth street to charles p caldwell walker bought this stable in september last when his for tune was shooting skyward paying 60 000 for it and several thousands more for alterations about the same lime he paid 10,000 for the trotting team sensation and miss flir tation following the sale of his stable at a price said to be considerably under what he had paid for it came the an nouncement that he had sold his team of famous trotters to a bostonian for about half what they cost according to the complaint of carpenter baggott & co not only has the stock market been going against walker but the grain market as well loses in stocks and wheat between march 3 and june 3 the brokers purchased stocks for walker chiefly union pacific missouri pacitlc and american smelters to the value of 1i,084,131 and sold them for 2,057,805 a loss of 20,000 walker paid on this account 10,000 oa march 27 and 5,000 on may 1 the bal ance with interest amounted to 12,321 between march 0 and may s the brokers purcbased for his account may wheat to the value of 7do,sh7 and sold it for 7so 537 the balance against him with inter est was 11,094 walker is forty years old he came here from Chicago several years ago with 15 000 and ufter a brief career in the stock market was cleaned out he made several fresh starts but invarlablv went down and out he never attracted anv attention in the street until the winter of 190t;-07 when he got considerable capital and proceeded to jump on top of the market and beat it down was a savage bear he was one of the most savage bears that had cropped tip in the financial dis trict for a long time in the spring of 1907 he went to lake wood hired a fine cottage and had one of the rooms fitted up like a stock broker's office and gave orders to his secretary to transmit over the phones to his brokers in the city in the summer of 1907 he went up to saratoga where lie hired another villa but conducted his plunges from the branch office of one of his brokers walker is the son of edward walker of the legal staff of the Chicago milwaukee & st paul road widow of kirk lashelle play wrights is wedded to james howland in n y simplicity is the feature of fashion able marriage at tarry town tarkvtowx n y june 6 the wed ding of mrs kirke lashelle to james how laud was celebrated at 12:30 to-day at lieecliwood the beautiful country seat of mr and mrs frank a vanderlip at scar borough x y the ceremony was per formed by the rev louis f berry of xew york a personal friend of the groom in the large library mrs lashelle who returned from europe on tuesday wore a gown of white voile with heavy satin trimmings she had no attendants rich ard howland hunt was the beat man simplicity was the feature of the wed ding the ushers were lloyd warren wiuthrop dwight william powell rob bins charles w gould george m wool sey h b shope leavitt j hunt and h b price of xew york and c c walker of boston t f lee of washington b e nolden of Chicago and b j h kidder of boston after the ceremony a wedding breakfast was served on the lawn at which were present mr and mrs v everett macy mr and mrs g w vanderbilt mr and mrs j d xichols mr and mrs r c huntington mr and mrs g gilbert mr and mrs lars anderson mr and mrs j p lee mr and mrs 1 u phelps stokes p h post governor of porto rico mr and mrs augustus thomas mr and mrs j howard s borden and mrs ilenry slater 2 weeks in ice cake whisky thawed him steamboat pete only person saved out of 19 members of crew xew york june 6 according to a re port received here to-day by superintend ent lyman uundy of the maritime ex change from victoria b c steamboat pete a survivor of the john f miller which was wrecked in alaskan waters was found in an ice cake two weeks after the disaster pete was cast with nineteen others of the crew of the boat on an ice cake the cod-fishiug schooner ivy had put some men ashore on unimnk island to get bait when two members of her crew ran across the piece of ice containing the liv ing and the dead steamboat pete was frozen face to face to another sailor while a dead negro sailor was frozen to the back of steamboat pete who showed signs of life when released from his icy prison one of the sailors of the ivy poured the contents of a flask of whisky down pete's throat who revived Chicago sun overcomes visitor from texas j w chenville of austin succumbs while cranking auto the summer sun in Chicago yesterday proved too much for a visitor from texas j w chenville a cotton buyer from austin who is in Chicago to purchase an automobile was overcome by the heat at state and lake streets about 4 o'clock he dropped to the pavement unconscious while cranking an automobile he was sent to the harrison street emergency hospital xo 1 where he re vived in three or four hours later a friend j p barclay of the central rail way of texas took him to the grace hotel i thought it got hot in texas sometimes said chctivilie on leaving the hospital but this weather in Chicago beats anything 1 ever saw la my life before 33 miners entombed gases baffle rescuers little hope that any of the victims are living silvertox col june c thirty-three men are entombed in the gold king at gladstone a rescue party from silverton attempted to enter the mine at 10 o'clock they passed into the 1,000-foot tunnel and descended the shaft to the third level but were forced to return by foul air and smoke caused by the destruction of the surface buildings in thursday night's fire which disabled the ventilating fans the thirty-three men are believed to i>e below the third level but what the air conditions at that point and down to the fifth and last level are can only be surmised it is feared that the air in the lower levels is worse than above and if such is the case then every one of the thirty-three men is probably dead beckham-temperance forces carry kentucky fbaxkfort ky june c returns from county conventions to-night indicate that governor beckham's forces have car ried every congressional district except the fifth insuring his control of the state convention over henry watterson and his followers of louisville bryan gets the instructions to delegates every where in the state and the temperance views of beckham were indorsed forest park lights mysteriously cut off plot says m'cormick chain thrown across feed wire in spite of police guard shortcircuits current 1,500 reward is offered three men seen running from spot shortly after gay crowd is plunged in darkness p while forest park the newest of chi cago's amusement parks which was opened to the public last evening was ablaze with thousands of electric lights while 15,000 persons were in the grounds suddenly at 11 o'clock the lights went out and the park was m darkness the electric lighting at forest park is furnished by the sanitary district threats have been freely made to the members of the district and their engineers that tliey would never be able to furnish light to forest park investigation proved that the three feed wires leading to forest park had been shortciicuited at banna and harrison streets but a short distance from the park a rope to which was attached a heavy iron chain was thrown over the feed wires then the rope was drawn until the chain touched the feed wires this caused a short circuit 1,500 reward offered three men were seen running away from the place where the trouble occurred the sanitary district anticipating some such trouble had a large force of linemen and repairers ready at forest p"rk within a few minutes the short circuit was repaired and the park lighted a reward of 1,500 offered jointly by the sanitary district and the management of the new amusement resort for evidence leading to the arrest or conviction of the perpetrators of the deed was offered late last night the short circuiting of our wires last night at forest park was the greatest out rage i ever heard of said r it mccor mick president of the sanitary district it must have been a very comprehensive conspiracy the persons who short cir cuited the wires evidently had complete knowledge of the lighting system do you consider the lighting trust be hind the conspiracy mccormick was asked i cannot now rove who did the deed he answered but i have a very good idea a thorough investigation will be made guards are eluded the sanitary district members were afraid that something would happen inst night they had a force of men patrolling the wires from the generating plant to the park but the men who caused the short circuit evaded the patrol the corner of harrison and hann streets was dark last night the city friends and foes of Taft now engaged in skirmishing and two interested women marines to guard polls on is thmus Taft and roosevelt determine to enforce quiet at elec tions in panama washington june c conferences on panama to-day between the white house secretary root and officials of the navy department indicate that the government proposes to force a quiet election in pan ama by use of the marines secretary Taft and the president were anxious to know whether the 200 extra marines or dered to be in panama for the elections will arrive on time it was ascertained that there will be no delay mr Taft on his recent visit to panama made a report on the allegations in pan ama that united states minister squires was perniciously active in the local cam paign â€¢ the panama government also wanted the attention of this government called to that allegation and mr squires has made a report to the state department this was considered to-day before being sent to the panama government in brief the united states takes the ground that it is bound to obtain peace lu panama if it appears that there will he trouble beyond the control of the local gov ernment the nolicy of the white house in other words is to let nothing interfere with the progress of the work on the < anal the united states has therefore undertaken iirnetlca'lr to supervise the elections in panama as between the liber als.'the conservatives and the suspected revolutionists leave granted to col.tucker washington june 6 leave of ab sence for three mouths on surgeon's cer tificate of disability is granted colonel wiiliaui f tucker assistant paymaster general to take effect upon the expiration of his present leave of absence girl in directoire stops big steamer appears at new york pier al most mobbed cabmen fall subpoena dodger caught new york june 6 the directoire gown with the sheath skirt is at large in new york it made its first appearance in public to-day things happened as follows five hundred persons almost mobbed the wearer to have a look the sailing of the white star liner oceanic was delayed for twenty minutes a man who was dodging a subpoena server stared so hard that he was caught two cabmen fell from their boxes the gown made its debut on the white star line pier the woman who wore it was a tall beautiful picture in gray she was there to say farewall to some friends the commotion started when she walked tip the gangplank for sure enough this is the point everybody wondered about the skirt was slit up the left side and there was no doubt about the pearl gray stock ing being pearl gray all along its length the news of the gown spread through the crowd the crowd doubled when the all ashore whistles blew several late comers couldn't get aboard so tight was the throng waiting for the directoire wom an to leave the ship was held up twenty minutes samuel bomtrer 01 lorlmer street brooklyn got a flash at the sheath skirt and halted on his way to the liner henry sternberg who was chasing him came upon him open-mouthed and tagged him with the paper the woman's escort had to shoulder a way for her through the crowd to their carriage two boys fiind a man self-slain in a ditch ' an unidentified man about flfty-flvc years old and well dressed was found dead with his throat cut in a ditch at eighty-third street and langley avenue by two boys shortly after 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon a razor was found near the body and the police believe the man committed suicide refuge is fire trap girls must leave downey orders institution closed 175 inmates will be without shelter claiming that the building is a firetrap c the worst kind building commissioner downey yesterday ordered the Chicago refuge for girls 5024 indiana avenue to close its doors and find another home there are 175 inmates in the refuge all will be without shelter if the commissioner enforces the order there never was a worse arc-trap in use as a home said chief deputy building commissioner j c christensen last night it has no fire escapes and not one-half enough inside stairways a!l the windows are barred if a are should start the fata of inmates could hardly be anything ex cept complete cremation if they have not vacated by tuesday night we probably will have to put them out they have had many warnings miss elizabeth stone is superintendent of the refuge and john j sloan former superintendent ' of the bridewell is head of the board of managers the inmates are girls between the ages of twelve and twenty-two and are sent to the refuge by the juvenile and other courts surely they won't put all these poor homeless girls out into the streets said miss stone they told us to put in are escapes and more stairways we are try ing to comply the orders for the ma terials have been giveu everything is being rushed our president mrs l b doud appealed to mr downey to let us stav and she has hopes he will relent there was a report that mr sloan would attempt to stop the eviction by injunction commissioner downey issued licenses yesterday t the studebaker and mc vlcker theaters we don't expect to have to shut up anv more theaters as all are complying with the law mr downey said foes of Taft plan a bolt abandoning contests allies representatives charge national committee is packed for Taft only await the word l tentative agreement to go before credentials body now up to candidates big party split impends i negroes threaten to nominate foraker as independent sec retary gains 16 delegates allied opponents of secretary Taft have agreed tentatively to bolt the republican na tional committee with their contests from southern states their plan 13 to take those contests directly to the credentials committee of the national - i convention upon a statement that the ' national committee is packed for Taft and is prejudiced and unfair this action was agreed upon at a conference of the representatives of the allies late last night formal an nouncement of the plan awaits the ap proval of the allied candidates them j selves â€” vice president fairbanks u speaker gannon senator knox sena â– tor foraker and governor lu.'jfrw^j|p messages sent to principals telegrams were sent those gentle men last night and replies are ex pected to-day in time for the announce ment to be made to-night the an â€¢ nouncement may be delayed until mon day at which time speaker cannon is expected to be here to speak for him self and others may come the meetidg at which the plan to bolt wns finally determined upon was held at the Chicago club there had been two others earlier in the day those present were senator w murray crane or massa chusetts chief of all the antl-tafters senator lames a hemetfway and joseph b kealing representing vice president fairbanks a b humphrey for governor hughes congressman james francis burke for senator knox and john evers man for speaker cannon talk is convention bolt every effort was made to keep tile deter mination secret senator heinenway even half-heartedlv denied that he had been at the last conference and he also denied or rather refused to admit that such nn agree ment had been reached he did admit though that there had been a great deal of talk on the subject and that some of the representatives of the allies had gone so far as to suggest thai they the allies should take their delegates and walk out of the convention if all the Taft delegates from the south are seated as it now seems they will be such talk was wild senator hemenway said and efforts are being ma-de to prevent any radical action senator crane the great compromiser of the party he de clared is pleading with the more radical ones to act conservatively and not to do anything rash crane the indianan also stated will use all his influence to keep the allies from even bolting the committee with the contests hitchcock is serene the information that the bolt has been 1 anally determined upon came to the exam i iner however directly from a person pres 1 ent and the same information was given i out by what hemenway insinuated was a m press agent for the tafters a news bureau v frank h hitchcock manager of the m Taft campaign and againsl whom most of the indignation of the allies is directed de-jfl clared that a bolt will be a perfectly frank i and final admission of defeat by the allies we will be on hand monday with our evidence to go ahead and prove onr reg ularity just as we have always contend ed he said negroes with the uprisers if the bolt conies as it now seems cer m tain it will it will have the entire syni pathy and support of the ij.'^-rt contest ants who are being thrown out by ihf^h national committee those contestants met last night to discuss the same subfl ject and were all in favor of such actioah they met at 31<i state street anc u>h dared there is no hope of justice for theÃŸ black man at the hands of the national i committee they as well as the repre â– seutatives of the allies contemplate a â– direct appeal to the credentials !'.Â«,. t ~ fl itec of the national convention itself in i ppeal they say for a square uvul bcforaÃŸ an unpiejiidlivd set of judges 9 | prejudice is charged two direct causes are given for tbehj threatened withdrawal of all contest â– continued on 6th page sth column weather 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Chicago examiner Chicago june 7 1908 sunday vol viii no 49 a m price five cents sunday j brandt walker 5000,000 gone sued by brokers for 23,415 attorneys for Chicago plunger in wall street say he cannot pay lost in stocks and grain caught in patten corn corner sells famous trotters at big sacrifice new york june 6 john brandt walker the stock market plunger from Chicago who was credited with winning 5,000,000 at the height of the panic last october and who then announced his in tention of quitting the wall street game was served with an attachment for 1i1,415 on an order obtained from judge gary of the supreme court by the stock exchange firm of carpenter baggott & co a few months ago 23,000 would have been regarded by walker as a mere trifle but according to counsel for his brokers blandy moody & shipman he couldn't or wouldn't settle a debt for that amount hence the attachment the attachment was served on the fifth avenue trust company where walker car ries his principal account and also on sev eral brokerage firms including l h b pell & co through which he deals caught in corn corner walker was caught short lu patten's cor ner in may corn on the Chicago board of trade recently his losses in that deal are said to have been very heavy when he was conducting his big bear campaign in the stock market which be gan early in 1907 and continued up to december last if not longer the plunger traded through eight or ten brokerage houses he makes his headquarters in the up town branch of l h r pell & co at 500 fifth avenue which is at the corner of forty-second street and his desk there is equipped with six telephones each con nected by private wires with a brokerage noose walker lives in bachelor apartments at 22 west third street he could not be found there to-night there have been rumors for the past six weeks that walker who claimed to have made as much as 1,000,000 in a single day during the height of the slump last fall was losing his money rapidly sells stock at big sacrifice color was given to these reports on may 18 when it was announced that walker had aom his combination stable and ga rage at 30 west sixty-sixth street to charles p caldwell walker bought this stable in september last when his for tune was shooting skyward paying 60 000 for it and several thousands more for alterations about the same lime he paid 10,000 for the trotting team sensation and miss flir tation following the sale of his stable at a price said to be considerably under what he had paid for it came the an nouncement that he had sold his team of famous trotters to a bostonian for about half what they cost according to the complaint of carpenter baggott & co not only has the stock market been going against walker but the grain market as well loses in stocks and wheat between march 3 and june 3 the brokers purchased stocks for walker chiefly union pacific missouri pacitlc and american smelters to the value of 1i,084,131 and sold them for 2,057,805 a loss of 20,000 walker paid on this account 10,000 oa march 27 and 5,000 on may 1 the bal ance with interest amounted to 12,321 between march 0 and may s the brokers purcbased for his account may wheat to the value of 7do,sh7 and sold it for 7so 537 the balance against him with inter est was 11,094 walker is forty years old he came here from Chicago several years ago with 15 000 and ufter a brief career in the stock market was cleaned out he made several fresh starts but invarlablv went down and out he never attracted anv attention in the street until the winter of 190t;-07 when he got considerable capital and proceeded to jump on top of the market and beat it down was a savage bear he was one of the most savage bears that had cropped tip in the financial dis trict for a long time in the spring of 1907 he went to lake wood hired a fine cottage and had one of the rooms fitted up like a stock broker's office and gave orders to his secretary to transmit over the phones to his brokers in the city in the summer of 1907 he went up to saratoga where lie hired another villa but conducted his plunges from the branch office of one of his brokers walker is the son of edward walker of the legal staff of the Chicago milwaukee & st paul road widow of kirk lashelle play wrights is wedded to james howland in n y simplicity is the feature of fashion able marriage at tarry town tarkvtowx n y june 6 the wed ding of mrs kirke lashelle to james how laud was celebrated at 12:30 to-day at lieecliwood the beautiful country seat of mr and mrs frank a vanderlip at scar borough x y the ceremony was per formed by the rev louis f berry of xew york a personal friend of the groom in the large library mrs lashelle who returned from europe on tuesday wore a gown of white voile with heavy satin trimmings she had no attendants rich ard howland hunt was the beat man simplicity was the feature of the wed ding the ushers were lloyd warren wiuthrop dwight william powell rob bins charles w gould george m wool sey h b shope leavitt j hunt and h b price of xew york and c c walker of boston t f lee of washington b e nolden of Chicago and b j h kidder of boston after the ceremony a wedding breakfast was served on the lawn at which were present mr and mrs v everett macy mr and mrs g w vanderbilt mr and mrs j d xichols mr and mrs r c huntington mr and mrs g gilbert mr and mrs lars anderson mr and mrs j p lee mr and mrs 1 u phelps stokes p h post governor of porto rico mr and mrs augustus thomas mr and mrs j howard s borden and mrs ilenry slater 2 weeks in ice cake whisky thawed him steamboat pete only person saved out of 19 members of crew xew york june 6 according to a re port received here to-day by superintend ent lyman uundy of the maritime ex change from victoria b c steamboat pete a survivor of the john f miller which was wrecked in alaskan waters was found in an ice cake two weeks after the disaster pete was cast with nineteen others of the crew of the boat on an ice cake the cod-fishiug schooner ivy had put some men ashore on unimnk island to get bait when two members of her crew ran across the piece of ice containing the liv ing and the dead steamboat pete was frozen face to face to another sailor while a dead negro sailor was frozen to the back of steamboat pete who showed signs of life when released from his icy prison one of the sailors of the ivy poured the contents of a flask of whisky down pete's throat who revived Chicago sun overcomes visitor from texas j w chenville of austin succumbs while cranking auto the summer sun in Chicago yesterday proved too much for a visitor from texas j w chenville a cotton buyer from austin who is in Chicago to purchase an automobile was overcome by the heat at state and lake streets about 4 o'clock he dropped to the pavement unconscious while cranking an automobile he was sent to the harrison street emergency hospital xo 1 where he re vived in three or four hours later a friend j p barclay of the central rail way of texas took him to the grace hotel i thought it got hot in texas sometimes said chctivilie on leaving the hospital but this weather in Chicago beats anything 1 ever saw la my life before 33 miners entombed gases baffle rescuers little hope that any of the victims are living silvertox col june c thirty-three men are entombed in the gold king at gladstone a rescue party from silverton attempted to enter the mine at 10 o'clock they passed into the 1,000-foot tunnel and descended the shaft to the third level but were forced to return by foul air and smoke caused by the destruction of the surface buildings in thursday night's fire which disabled the ventilating fans the thirty-three men are believed to i>e below the third level but what the air conditions at that point and down to the fifth and last level are can only be surmised it is feared that the air in the lower levels is worse than above and if such is the case then every one of the thirty-three men is probably dead beckham-temperance forces carry kentucky fbaxkfort ky june c returns from county conventions to-night indicate that governor beckham's forces have car ried every congressional district except the fifth insuring his control of the state convention over henry watterson and his followers of louisville bryan gets the instructions to delegates every where in the state and the temperance views of beckham were indorsed forest park lights mysteriously cut off plot says m'cormick chain thrown across feed wire in spite of police guard shortcircuits current 1,500 reward is offered three men seen running from spot shortly after gay crowd is plunged in darkness p while forest park the newest of chi cago's amusement parks which was opened to the public last evening was ablaze with thousands of electric lights while 15,000 persons were in the grounds suddenly at 11 o'clock the lights went out and the park was m darkness the electric lighting at forest park is furnished by the sanitary district threats have been freely made to the members of the district and their engineers that tliey would never be able to furnish light to forest park investigation proved that the three feed wires leading to forest park had been shortciicuited at banna and harrison streets but a short distance from the park a rope to which was attached a heavy iron chain was thrown over the feed wires then the rope was drawn until the chain touched the feed wires this caused a short circuit 1,500 reward offered three men were seen running away from the place where the trouble occurred the sanitary district anticipating some such trouble had a large force of linemen and repairers ready at forest p"rk within a few minutes the short circuit was repaired and the park lighted a reward of 1,500 offered jointly by the sanitary district and the management of the new amusement resort for evidence leading to the arrest or conviction of the perpetrators of the deed was offered late last night the short circuiting of our wires last night at forest park was the greatest out rage i ever heard of said r it mccor mick president of the sanitary district it must have been a very comprehensive conspiracy the persons who short cir cuited the wires evidently had complete knowledge of the lighting system do you consider the lighting trust be hind the conspiracy mccormick was asked i cannot now rove who did the deed he answered but i have a very good idea a thorough investigation will be made guards are eluded the sanitary district members were afraid that something would happen inst night they had a force of men patrolling the wires from the generating plant to the park but the men who caused the short circuit evaded the patrol the corner of harrison and hann streets was dark last night the city friends and foes of Taft now engaged in skirmishing and two interested women marines to guard polls on is thmus Taft and roosevelt determine to enforce quiet at elec tions in panama washington june c conferences on panama to-day between the white house secretary root and officials of the navy department indicate that the government proposes to force a quiet election in pan ama by use of the marines secretary Taft and the president were anxious to know whether the 200 extra marines or dered to be in panama for the elections will arrive on time it was ascertained that there will be no delay mr Taft on his recent visit to panama made a report on the allegations in pan ama that united states minister squires was perniciously active in the local cam paign â€¢ the panama government also wanted the attention of this government called to that allegation and mr squires has made a report to the state department this was considered to-day before being sent to the panama government in brief the united states takes the ground that it is bound to obtain peace lu panama if it appears that there will he trouble beyond the control of the local gov ernment the nolicy of the white house in other words is to let nothing interfere with the progress of the work on the < anal the united states has therefore undertaken iirnetlca'lr to supervise the elections in panama as between the liber als.'the conservatives and the suspected revolutionists leave granted to col.tucker washington june 6 leave of ab sence for three mouths on surgeon's cer tificate of disability is granted colonel wiiliaui f tucker assistant paymaster general to take effect upon the expiration of his present leave of absence girl in directoire stops big steamer appears at new york pier al most mobbed cabmen fall subpoena dodger caught new york june 6 the directoire gown with the sheath skirt is at large in new york it made its first appearance in public to-day things happened as follows five hundred persons almost mobbed the wearer to have a look the sailing of the white star liner oceanic was delayed for twenty minutes a man who was dodging a subpoena server stared so hard that he was caught two cabmen fell from their boxes the gown made its debut on the white star line pier the woman who wore it was a tall beautiful picture in gray she was there to say farewall to some friends the commotion started when she walked tip the gangplank for sure enough this is the point everybody wondered about the skirt was slit up the left side and there was no doubt about the pearl gray stock ing being pearl gray all along its length the news of the gown spread through the crowd the crowd doubled when the all ashore whistles blew several late comers couldn't get aboard so tight was the throng waiting for the directoire wom an to leave the ship was held up twenty minutes samuel bomtrer 01 lorlmer street brooklyn got a flash at the sheath skirt and halted on his way to the liner henry sternberg who was chasing him came upon him open-mouthed and tagged him with the paper the woman's escort had to shoulder a way for her through the crowd to their carriage two boys fiind a man self-slain in a ditch ' an unidentified man about flfty-flvc years old and well dressed was found dead with his throat cut in a ditch at eighty-third street and langley avenue by two boys shortly after 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon a razor was found near the body and the police believe the man committed suicide refuge is fire trap girls must leave downey orders institution closed 175 inmates will be without shelter claiming that the building is a firetrap c the worst kind building commissioner downey yesterday ordered the Chicago refuge for girls 5024 indiana avenue to close its doors and find another home there are 175 inmates in the refuge all will be without shelter if the commissioner enforces the order there never was a worse arc-trap in use as a home said chief deputy building commissioner j c christensen last night it has no fire escapes and not one-half enough inside stairways a!l the windows are barred if a are should start the fata of inmates could hardly be anything ex cept complete cremation if they have not vacated by tuesday night we probably will have to put them out they have had many warnings miss elizabeth stone is superintendent of the refuge and john j sloan former superintendent ' of the bridewell is head of the board of managers the inmates are girls between the ages of twelve and twenty-two and are sent to the refuge by the juvenile and other courts surely they won't put all these poor homeless girls out into the streets said miss stone they told us to put in are escapes and more stairways we are try ing to comply the orders for the ma terials have been giveu everything is being rushed our president mrs l b doud appealed to mr downey to let us stav and she has hopes he will relent there was a report that mr sloan would attempt to stop the eviction by injunction commissioner downey issued licenses yesterday t the studebaker and mc vlcker theaters we don't expect to have to shut up anv more theaters as all are complying with the law mr downey said foes of Taft plan a bolt abandoning contests allies representatives charge national committee is packed for Taft only await the word l tentative agreement to go before credentials body now up to candidates big party split impends i negroes threaten to nominate foraker as independent sec retary gains 16 delegates allied opponents of secretary Taft have agreed tentatively to bolt the republican na tional committee with their contests from southern states their plan 13 to take those contests directly to the credentials committee of the national - i convention upon a statement that the ' national committee is packed for Taft and is prejudiced and unfair this action was agreed upon at a conference of the representatives of the allies late last night formal an nouncement of the plan awaits the ap proval of the allied candidates them j selves â€” vice president fairbanks u speaker gannon senator knox sena â– tor foraker and governor lu.'jfrw^j|p messages sent to principals telegrams were sent those gentle men last night and replies are ex pected to-day in time for the announce ment to be made to-night the an â€¢ nouncement may be delayed until mon day at which time speaker cannon is expected to be here to speak for him self and others may come the meetidg at which the plan to bolt wns finally determined upon was held at the Chicago club there had been two others earlier in the day those present were senator w murray crane or massa chusetts chief of all the antl-tafters senator lames a hemetfway and joseph b kealing representing vice president fairbanks a b humphrey for governor hughes congressman james francis burke for senator knox and john evers man for speaker cannon talk is convention bolt every effort was made to keep tile deter mination secret senator heinenway even half-heartedlv denied that he had been at the last conference and he also denied or rather refused to admit that such nn agree ment had been reached he did admit though that there had been a great deal of talk on the subject and that some of the representatives of the allies had gone so far as to suggest thai they the allies should take their delegates and walk out of the convention if all the Taft delegates from the south are seated as it now seems they will be such talk was wild senator hemenway said and efforts are being ma-de to prevent any radical action senator crane the great compromiser of the party he de clared is pleading with the more radical ones to act conservatively and not to do anything rash crane the indianan also stated will use all his influence to keep the allies from even bolting the committee with the contests hitchcock is serene the information that the bolt has been 1 anally determined upon came to the exam i iner however directly from a person pres 1 ent and the same information was given i out by what hemenway insinuated was a m press agent for the tafters a news bureau v frank h hitchcock manager of the m Taft campaign and againsl whom most of the indignation of the allies is directed de-jfl clared that a bolt will be a perfectly frank i and final admission of defeat by the allies we will be on hand monday with our evidence to go ahead and prove onr reg ularity just as we have always contend ed he said negroes with the uprisers if the bolt conies as it now seems cer m tain it will it will have the entire syni pathy and support of the ij.'^-rt contest ants who are being thrown out by ihf^h national committee those contestants met last night to discuss the same subfl ject and were all in favor of such actioah they met at 31h dared there is no hope of justice for theÃŸ black man at the hands of the national i committee they as well as the repre â– seutatives of the allies contemplate a â– direct appeal to the credentials !'.Â«,. t ~ fl itec of the national convention itself in i ppeal they say for a square uvul bcforaÃŸ an unpiejiidlivd set of judges 9 | prejudice is charged two direct causes are given for tbehj threatened withdrawal of all contest â– continued on 6th page sth column weather indications Chicago 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